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13 Jun 2019, 5:37 am
"But the White House made clear that in exchange for revisiting that decision, it wants MLB, like other groups with ties to the island, to urge Cuba to reduce its long-standing cooperation with Venezuela's socialist government," NPR reports. [read post]
23 May 2019, 7:52 am by Immigration Prof
Los Angeles Dodgers ace pitcher Clayton Kershaw and his wife, Ellen, visited the Dominican Republic during the MLB offseason to help fight the battle against human trafficking. [read post]
3 May 2019, 10:20 am by Tim Springer
Students must be projected to be picked in the first three rounds of the NFL or NHL drafts or the first round of the NBA, WNBA or MLB drafts to qualify and allows these student-athletes to purchase insurance to cover injuries that could affect their careers. [read post]
In assessing thousands of professional (MLB, NBA, NHL) and NCAA Division 1 athletes, Caliper has found that physical ability, while obviously necessary, is not sufficient in predicting athletic success at the highest levels. [read post]
15 Apr 2019, 7:09 am by Joy
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 15, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter:  US House sues to block Trump’s use of funds for border wallTrump cancels deal between MLB and CubaCanadian government says it’s considering regulating Facebook and other social media giantsLawsuit: Uber didn't do enough to warn women about series of rapes by fake Uber drivers in LA Judge demands white supremacist Andrew Anglin turn up for deposition. [read post]
9 Apr 2019, 1:58 pm by Alex Psilakis
On December 19, 2018, the MLB Players Association and the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) signed a deal that made is possible for Cuban nationals to play in the MLB without defecting from their home country. [read post]
9 Apr 2019, 1:58 pm by Alex Psilakis
On December 19, 2018, the MLB Players Association and the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) signed a deal that made is possible for Cuban nationals to play in the MLB without defecting from their home country. [read post]
9 Apr 2019, 6:47 am by Lindsay Offutt
 Under the terms of the Agreement, the FCB would release players from their contract to let them sign with MLB clubs. [read post]
25 Mar 2019, 7:27 am by Immigration Prof
As has been noted, the MLB has become increasingly Latinx, in no small part due to the pipeline of players from the Dominican Republic. [read post]
21 Mar 2019, 1:50 pm by Lovechilde
(MLB should pour funds into youth baseball -- and fairly compensate minor leaguers -- if it truly wants to have a long-term impact.) [read post]
21 Mar 2019, 1:50 pm by Lovechilde
(MLB should pour funds into youth baseball -- and fairly compensate minor leaguers -- if it truly wants to have a long-term impact.) [read post]
19 Mar 2019, 8:17 am by Erik J. Heels
https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-patch-to-mark-150-years-of-pro-baseball-c303826766 * Tom Brady’s Greatest Throw (2019-02-08)https://www.patspulpit.com/2019/2/8/18212595/tom-brady-greatest-throw-nfl-super-bowl-rams-patriots-gronkowski * Film Room: The Patriots’ Lone Touchdown Drive Of Super Bowl 53 Was The Stuff Of Legends (2019-02-07)https://www.patspulpit.com/2019/2/7/18215177/film-room-new-england-patriots-touchdown-drive-super-bowl-53-los-angeles-rams-tom-brady-sony-michel *… [read post]
12 Mar 2019, 8:25 am
From the Wall Street Journal.Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Tommy Pham wanted help with his defensive positioning one day earlier in spring training, so he sought guidance from... a 28-year-old with a math degree from Princeton whose entire playing career consists of T-ball in Canada at the age of 5....Some teams even have a numbers guru travel with the team as a member of the front office. [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 10:38 am by Altman & Altman
Such was the sad case of Dustin Fowler, a prospect who got his first shot in the MLB with none other than the Evil Empire themselves – the New York Yankees – in June of 2017. [read post]
25 Feb 2019, 11:23 am by Myers Freelance
We regularly run search queries in Google for “brooks robinson stats” and “mike trout stats versus lefties at home after dark on weekends,” and we always click on Baseball Reference, rather than MLB, ESPN, or Yahoo! [read post]
30 Jan 2019, 8:00 am by brooks
Frazier was called up to the Yankees MLB team in 2017 and got some time, and he even did pretty well. [read post]
30 Jan 2019, 6:04 am by Betty Lupinacci
Based on a complaint filed by Fleer in 1962, a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) examiner ruled against Topps, concluding that they were in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act and that their actions constituted unfair practice in violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act by way of their exclusive contracts with MLB players to appear on Topps baseball cards (67 FTC 744, 833 (1965).) [read post]
25 Jan 2019, 12:08 pm by Kevin Kaufman
That has been the crux of argument advanced by professional sports leagues—particularly Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National Basketball Association (NBA)—for so-called “integrity fees,” in which as much as 1 percent of the “handle” (the total amount of bets taken) would be remitted to the league to offset the costs of maintaining the data on which bets are based, and in compensation for generating the product (the games themselves) which makes… [read post]
9 Jan 2019, 11:16 am by Injury at Sea
The Victory’s crew immediately began searching for the fishermen, and called for more support leading to another boat crew launching aboard a 47-foot MLB and an aircrew aboard an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Air Facility Newport arriving on scene. [read post]
29 Dec 2018, 7:34 am by Erik J. Heels
Sox win 4th title since ’04 (2018-10-29)https://www.mlb.com/news/red-sox-win-2018-world-series-title/c-299876586 * Steve Pearce comes up huge for the Red Sox again (2018-10-29)https://sports.yahoo.com/steve-pearce-comes-huge-red-003244533.html * Mookie, J.D. homer off Kershaw in G5 clincher (2018-10-29)https://www.mlb.com/news/mookie-betts-jd-martinez-homer-in-clincher/c-299884638 * Red Sox pinch-hitters come up clutch again in World Series… [read post]